Don Warner

Phil Rosenthal, creator of
Everybody Loves Raymond and host of PBS’s upcoming world-hopping food series
I’ll Have What Phil’s Having seems serious – sort of – about food’s power to unite. “It’s all about expanding your mind a little bit,” Rosenthal told reporters this afternoon at the Television…

My heart was heavy when I heard the news that Roddy Piper, known to most of the world as “Rowdy” Roddy, or “Hot Rod,” died at the age of 61 from cardiac arrest. Not to mention, I’ve actually known Roddy my entire life — a lot of us who watched professional wrestling have grown up knowing him — so I…

Derek Zoolander tackles the tough questions in the first "Zoolander 2" teaser, released Sunday. The two-minute clip begins with a cosmology lesson from a Stephen Hawking-esque voiceover. "The human brain, the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution -- a brain that possesses the power of reason…

The End Of The Tour, A24’s Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel pic about writer David Foster Wallace and a reporter profiling him, got off to a solid beginning with a launch in 4 New York and L.A. theaters, one of a handful of new specialty movies this weekend. A couple of high profile Sundance docs…

The Hollywood Bowl has found its Holy Grail. “Spamalot,” the Tony Award-winning burlesque musical treatment of Monty Python’s routines and worldview, proves to be the absolute perfect choice for the LA Philharmonic’s annual staged concert, and the best such offering in the venerable venue in a…

When President Obama went on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” recently, he spent much of the half-hour highlighting the merits of the deal with Iran to limit that country’s nuclear program. That drew criticism from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who said Obama’s appearance lacked class, as he “goes on…

Channing Tatum, long touted to star in the
X-Men spinoff
Gambit, closed his deal. Is that a story? The only qualification was that one outlet, hearing the same rumor as every other outlet, ran a big misleading headline saying Tatum would drop out of the film, though in the story got only as…

“The pinnacle of billions of years of evolution”? The cosmic implications are endless. Umm, in this case make that comic implications. What sounds like the computer voice usually identified with Stephen Hawking sets up the return of supermodel Derek Zoolander aka Ben Stiller, who directs from…

Curious George returns to PBS Kids August 17 in his third feature-length adventure
Curious George 3: Back To The Jungle, featuring the voices of John Goodman and Angela Bassett and music by the Plain White Ts, the network announced at TCA Saturday. Also announced were new episodes of the…

Cilla Black, English recording artist, host of two of Britain’s longest-running entertainment shows and Cavern Club favorite of The Beatles, has died at the age of 72. “Such a shock to hear about Cilla's passing,” Paul McCartney tweeted. “She was a lovely girl who infected everyone with her great…

A Latin musical tribute to Michael Jackson, concerts by Chita Rivera and Danny Elfman, and productions of
Show Boat and
Billy Elliott The Musical are among this year’s line-up of the PBS Arts Fall Festival, the network announced at Saturday’s TCA. The fifth-annual fest kicks off October 9 with…